Union Depot
A Lifetime Crowded Into a Few Mad Hours! A Picture Shockingly Real—Lifting You Out of the Humdrum Routine, Pluning You Wildly Into Life's Melodrama!
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee, Alan Hale, David Landau
Writer: Douglas Durkin, Kenyon Nicholson, Walter DeLeon, Joe Laurie Jr., Gene Fowler
January 14, 1932
5.8 / 10
Alfred E. Green
First National Pictures
Overview
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a break, Chick fortuitously comes across across a valise abandoned by a drunken traveler. In it he finds a shaving kit and a suit of clothes with a bankroll, which help transform the affable tramp into a dashing gent. After buying himself a meal, Chick seeks some female companionship among the many hustlers who walk the station. He propositions Ruth Collins, a stranded, out-of-work showgirl and takes her to the station's hotel.